The Reluctant Grownup – Page 105 – Growing old gracelessly.

Holidays and Celebrations, Like a Horse and Carriage

Digging in my Heels

The Professor and I are largely laid back people, and we rarely fight. But today, we’re fighting (in a still largely friendly but-the-undertone-is-mothertrucking-serious kind of way). Over THE MOST ridiculous…

December 6, 2010

Dear Friends, Drama Queen, Holidays and Celebrations, Navel Gazing (and I Don't Mean Oranges)

Mary Speaks

I’ve always disliked that song “Mary Did You Know” (sorry if you love it!) It plays this time of year on repeat, and I switch the channel whenever I hear…

December 5, 2014

Parents and Siblings and Cousins, Oh My!, Travel

Beach 2016

All three boys are napping – the big boys just requested a nap, and we put them in our bed. It’s kind of amazing. We had a long morning swimming…

June 25, 2016

Excerpts from “Blue Nights” and My Own As-Yet-Unwritten Memoir

RG / March 21, 2013

Joan Didion wrote “The Year of Magical Thinking” after her husband, John Dunne, died of a heart attack at the dinner table, and her daughter, Quintana Roo, collapsed into a serious illness from…

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Luck o the Irish

RG / March 19, 2013

This past weekend was a camping weekend for us – sort of. The Professor’s family, in years past, made a tradition of a Memorial Day weekend campout. We skipped last year, probably…

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MILP Roundup # 293 and 294 and OhMyGodI’mATerriblePerson

RG / March 15, 2013

I failed to post my MILP roundup in late February, causing a domino effect of lost MILP updates. I would claim bar exam nuttiness, but we are all busy ladies in the land of…

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Snapshot of My House at Four Thirty on a Wednesday Morning

RG / March 13, 2013

The dog, suddenly alight with some devilish notion, runs up and down the stairs a couple of times, clackety clack on the hard wood. It is pitch dark outside, an hour before the…

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Busy busy busy

RG / March 3, 2013

I flew home from Tampa on a windy February day, and landed right into a whole mess of work that’s still sort of running my life. To top it off, Saturday was our…

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